From Peter Quinn’s Civil War New York to Dvorak’s New World, imagined lives can deepen our understanding of the past — and restore the arts to the teaching of history.

A selkie romance, a dubious life coach, and three couples in crisis: love takes some strange turns at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival.

Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.

In "How to Survive the End of the World," catastrophe is only part of the story. There’s also human resilience—and the ...

GlobeDocs and a standout screening at the Somerville Theatre offer an inviting week of documentaries about mortality, justice ...

Taken together, Rage is an affecting 60-minute portrait that’s singular in concept yet diverse in content. If less than diverse in instrumentation, well, that’s no complaint: the bassoon’s rarely ...

In her haunting installation "Cemetery of the Nameless," Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the ...

In Alex Gibney’s exhaustive documentary, Elon Musk emerges as a visionary, a menace, and a man determined to escape the world ...

This week's poem: "Sonic Warfare II" SONIC WARFARE II And as the engine steers reality— between humanity amity calamity indemnity, solemnity who is weaponizing systems struggle severed savoir in the ...

Ruchira Gupta joins Elizabeth Howard to explore her friendship with Gloria Steinem, the influence of India and Gandhi on Steinem’s activism, and their shared commitment to women’s freedom.

In her haunting installation “Cemetery of the Nameless,” Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the cruelties that recur across borders and centuries.

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